Dr Christine Stone

Research Interests

• Remote assessment of forest health in plantations and native forests
• Integration of forest health assessment into strategic and operational inventory systems
• Modelling of forest health disorders (e.g. Bell Miner Associated Dieback)
• Soil – applied systemic insecticides for eucalypt plantation establishment

Background

Dr Christine Stone is a Principal Research Scientist in DPI’s Science and Research Division. She leads the Forest Health Management research program in the Forest Resources Research unit. The Forest Health Management program undertakes research and develops management options that aim to minimise the impact of damaging agents of plantations and forests within the current commercial, environmental and regulatory framework.

Christine has a background in forest entomology and has research experience with most of the commercially damaging agents and processes affecting commercial plantations and forests in NSW.  She is recognised as a national authority in the application of remote sensing technologies for assessment of forest health and is currently a key researcher in Program 1 of the Forestry CRC and a founding member of the Subtropical Forest Alliance.

Qualifications

• B. Agric. Sci. – University of Tasmania, 1980 
• MSc. (Applied Entomology) –Imperial College, London, 1982
• PhD (Forest Entomology) – Macquarie University, 1990

Current and recently completed projects

• Remote assessment and spatial modelling of Bell Miner Associated Dieback
• Remote assessment of pine plantation productivity and health
• Soil-applied insecticides for young eucalypt plantations
• Relationships between the damaging Creiis psyllid, abiotic factors and young Eucalyptus dunnii plantations

Publications

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Program Leader Forest Health Management,
Forest Health Research,
NSW Department of Primary Industries
West Pennant Hills
PO Box 100
Beecroft NSW 2119

Ph: +61 (2) 9872 0132   
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